Improvement in tobacco-box clamps



. rod F uncoupled.

'UNITED STATES PATENT A,C )IEEIOE.

wAEwicK w. WOOD, OE JoNEsvILLE, NORTE OAEODINA.

IMPROVEMENT IN TOBACCO-Box cLAMPs.

specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 173,199 dated February s, 1816; application ined,

v September 3, 1875.

To all whom it may concer/n:

Be it known that I, WAEWIOKW. WOOD, of the town of Jonesville, county of Yadkin and State of North Carolina, have invented an Improvement in Tobacco-BOX Clamps and Shrouding, and do hereby declare the following to be a full and correct description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in WhichlFigure l represents a front View of the clamp and shrouding complete. Fig. 2 represents a back view ofthe same. Fig. 3 represents coupled rod F with wedge G passing through it at mortise R. Fig. 4 represents Fig. 5 represents rod F without coupling, and with rod orpiu J passing through it at hole V.

My invention relates to an improvement in that class of tobacco-box clamps and shrouding which are made of two solid square pieces of timber, with a shapel to receive the tobacco box, formed by cutting out likeportions in thecenter of the sides, that face inward of each piece of timber, so that lby facing the two sides together, thus cut, a square vacuum is formed, whichv is the place of confinement of the tobacco-box while in press, to prevent its bursting open during the process of packing tobacco in it 5 and my invention is intended to render this class of tobacco-box clamps and shrouding more easily operated and more complete in construction.

The block of timber M is one solid piece, and composes the entire rear of the shrouding. The blocks of timber N and 0 compose the front, which are connected at the center by means of a hinge or hinges, B, Fig. l. The timbers above named are all the timbers used, in this class of devices, andare connected and confined by means of two iron rods or bolts, whichare introduced at holes O in flanges E O11 rear block of timber M, and passing toward the front until their headsit up to han ges E, as shown in Fig. 2. By-introducing wedgesI D at mortises S S, passing through rods FF', I

as in Fig. l, the clampingpower may be increased and lessened by tightening or slackening said wedges. One of the rods or bolts F is coupled, being made of two pieces of iron, (either round or square,) which are connected by means of groove and tenon P and Q, and are-thus confined by means of wedge G, as shown in Fig. 3, and which, when parted or disconnected, are as shown in Fig. 4. Wedge G is introduced at mortise H in rear block M, and passes through groove and tenon of rod F at lnortise-R. (Shown in Fig. 3.) the clamp and shrouding, slacken Wedge D in coupled rod F, and raise or draw wedge G from its position in Fig. l, so as to part or disconnect rod F at P and Q; then draw front' piece of rod F one'and a half inch `to the front, and block N may be swung around to the right hand, after the manner of a door on hinges, placing it entirely out ofthe operatives way While he removes a filled package from and replaces an empty box in its place of. confinement at L in Figs. l and 2, thus-relieving him ofthe onerous labor of lifting theV packages back and forth over the front ofthe shrouding N and O, and which can be done` quicker than on the plan heretofore used, and with a great'deal lnore vease to the laborer. Round bolts or pins J are used, enteringhole's K in block M, passing through rods F F at.

holes V, as shown in Figs. 1, 3,' and 5, to prevent'rods F F from sliding backward. Flanges E and hinges B are fastened 'onto timbers M, N and O by lneansof screws t.

Havingfthus described my invention,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let` ters Patent, is`-\ l. The clamp-block M, in combination with the hinged clamp-blocks N O, as and for the purposes set forth.

2. The rods F F', the former. provided with' coupling devices, and both having'mortiscs S and wedges D, in combination with the clampblocks M N O, substantially as and for the purposes described.

WARWICK W. WOOD. Witnesses:

ANDREW G. CowLEs,

J Aims-S. GLAYWELL.

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